Scholarly efforts to understand conspiracy theories have grown significantly in recent years,
and there is now a broad and interdisciplinary literature. In reviewing this body of work, we …

This review explores the evolution of scholarly research about organizational storytelling
over the past 40 years in a sample of 165 papers published between 1975 and 2015. The …

Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? This study breaks from much previous
research and attempts to explain conspiratorial beliefs with traditional theories of opinion …

We are living in an age of conspiracy theories, whether it's enduring, widely held beliefs
such as government involvement in the Kennedy assassination or alien activity at Roswell …

While the willingness of people to believe unfounded and conspiratorial explanations of
events is fascinating and troubling, few have addressed the broader impacts of the …

What explains conspiracy thinking in Europe and America? This is the first and largest
comparative study of conspiracy thinking to date, presenting findings using a representative …

Narrative fictions have surely become the single most widespread source of entertainment in
the world. In their free time, humans read novels and comics, watch movies and TV series …

An overwhelming percentage of climate scientists agree that human activity is causing the
global climate to change in ways that will have deleterious consequences both for the …

Through this study, we shed new light on a key line of inquiry for criminologists: the way the
media influence the public's understanding of crime and justice. We argue for expanding the …

Many researchers assert that popular culture warrants greater attention from international
relations scholars. Yet work regarding the effects of popular culture on international relations …